Deer and people are living in ever closer proximity in East Hampton, and the tales of how their lives are entwined range from that of a bicyclist who died when a car hit a deer, which then hit him, to the story of a doe lactating and feeding her fawns in a woman’s driveway, to the ever-more-common stories of wild deer running through the woods with arrows still in them after a bow hunter’s shot failed to kill them.

And each person’s opinion of what to do about the deer population seemed intensely different from the next when the East Hampton Town Board opened up Town Hall for a “deer summit” on Thursday. The crush of opinionated people created another issue for board members, who scrambled to find extra chairs for the 150 plus residents who crammed into the hallways, craning their necks to see and hear speakers talk about the best way to manage the deer herd.

The room seemed nearly equally divided between hunting advocates and people for whom the killing of deer seemed a senseless slaughter. Applause for both positions was frequent, though the tone of the interaction was respectful on the whole.

But one speaker, Mary Jean Green of Hampton Bays, raised the hackles of hunters in the room.

“Every serial killer started as a hunter,” she said, turning her head and nodding to a group of hunting advocates on the left side of the meeting room, who responded with shocked gasps. “They all started by killing animals.”

Eve Houlihan, also of Hampton Bays, said that the town’s hunting program was “way too liberal.”

Hunters, who are allowed a 20-day shotgun season and a three-month-long bow hunting season, said that the exact opposite was true.

“The hunting areas are so loaded with hunters that the deer leave immediately,” said Hugh Miles of Springs, who added that 23 pieces of land have been closed to hunting by East Hampton Town since 2005. “Hunters do a job for nothing. I do hope we can get something done for hunters.”

Mr. Miles added that a test program in which the East Hampton Group for Wildlife placed reflectors along a section of Stephen Hands Path to scare deer away from the road is apparently successful only because the farmer who lives near that section of the road planted potatoes this year.

“Deer don’t eat potatoes,” he said. “They eat corn.”

Zachary Cohen, chairman of the town’s Nature Preserve Committee, said that the committee, which oversees hunting grounds, needs to restrict hunting in areas where new houses are built, because the state does not allow hunting within 500 feet of a house.

Terry O’Riordan, a hunter, said that he everyone he talks to tells him they think the deer population is out of control.

“Deer feces contaminate our sports fields. The woods are almost entirely barren up to five feet,” he said. “The average deer eats about 40 salads a day. The supply of vegetation is not self-sustainable.”

Mr. O’Riordan added that hunters had given more than 2,000 pounds of venison to the East Hampton food bank during hunting season this year.

Michael Clark, an environmental biologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, told the crowd that hunters in East Hampton last year took a record 475 deer. He added that the DEC is encouraging the hunting of does, who give birth to two to three fawns per year, by allowing an unlimited number of antlerless tags.

“Deer are polygamous, so the key to population management is the antlerless harvest,” he said, to the sound of whimpers from anti-hunting members of the audience. “Every female you take out takes out three deer. If you don’t take the antlerless out, the population can increase 50 percent in one year. They can deplete natural resources and eat themselves out of house and home.”

Mr. Clark said that the DEC relies on hunters to control the deer population, but that not many young people still hunt. He asked the town to help promote hunting among young people and to help lobby to decrease the distance from houses, which is currently 500 feet, that hunters can hunt.

Bill Crain, a child psychologist and member of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife, said that Mr. Clark was intentionally using words like “taking” and “culling” to desensitize the public to what hunters do.

“We should be forthright and say we are killing deer,” he said. “Very few people are speaking for animals. We should ask ourselves, ‘What’s it like to be hunted?’ There’s probably no species that has greater maternal regard for her young than the doe. What’s it like for a fawn to see her mother killed by a gun or an arrow?”

Dan Gilrain, of Cornell Cooperative Extension, said that a pilot program on Shelter Island known as the “four-poster,” which uses a series of baiting stations that spread the insecticide Permethrin on deer, was helping to reduce the number of ticks that live on deer, which carry diseases ranging from Lyme Disease to ehrlichiosis to tick-borne encephalitis. He said that Shelter Island has also been facing an infestation of Lone Star ticks, which many people are bit by and think are chiggers.

Homo sapiens is a mean predator. We can't change our fundamental nature. But education allows us a clear view of our motives. Hunters enjoy killing animals. That's the bottom line. Should we encourage killers to live among us?

Wildlife serial killing hunters do shoot mothers even while protecting their babies. Watch this videos. Mind you, I watch hunting snuff videos to learn, I visit hunting forums to learn, most of my stuff is not from an ARA websites but from yours whether it be the hunting snuff videos that hunters love to show off their killing to somehow feel "important" to other killers or reading their forums. Nothing but bragging and laughters in the expense of animal suffering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSbVCLeaygA

Put ...morethe volume up and listen to them, they are shooting mothers with their babies. One father tells his son to "shoot the mom shoot the mom" with an arrow as the baby is near by.

If they are so :"delicious" why do you marinate them for hours and then season them like crazy.? MOst of you don't even eat the meat beause of risk of CWD/Prions and you cannot boil or burn the disease away. They are defective proteins so abd why wheh they kill , epecially the big buck der with the rack (who wants tough meat). Older buck have tough meat so they "give" to the pantries. Easytto "give" what ou don't want isnt it? Plus DNR can sell more tags because the "sportsman" know where to ...more"give" the meat to.

Wolves and deer were gone from this area for over a century. Deer were re=introduced in the late 19th Century. Wolves were not. There is no natural predator now except man. We have the responsibility to keep the population of deer in check and healthy. Predation, hunting, is the best way to do this.

Deer are not Banbi, they don't "miss" a missing herd member. They are interested in eating, dominating and reproducing. Despite their size, they are markedly less intelegent than a house ...morecat. Crows are smarter by far!

Foolish sentimentality will only result in starvation, suffering and a cruel death to those deer who cannot get adequate food supplies in cold weather. Of course, the anti-hunters don't care, they usually don't see them die or run across the rotting carcasses in the woods. But they do feel oh so superior.

Humanity is just as guilty of overpopulating the East End, as the deer are.

This is moreover a people problem, as we seem to have left no postage stamp undeveloped.

Most deer graze on grasses to supplant their diet. All those beautiful, living room carpet grade lawns wouldn't be contributing to a spike in the population, would it?

In addition, if certain parties didn't spend a s***load of money on landscaping that shouldn't really be there anyway, there wouldn't be a ...moreproblem, now would there?

Personally, the only "lawn" that I've got, are the grasses that have naturally sprung up. No sod, no irrigation, no waste of a precious resource (fresh water), or unnecesary funds that I don't have anyway.

I had East End Fence & Gate put in a Deer fence and it has worked 100% Before that I tried everything. Human hair, Some sort of urine from a web site, I hung soap. Sprayed like a fool.... Its all Bunk. Since the fence I can plant again. Thank you Doug It worked just like you said It would and those 6 foot high rats are finally out of my life. And I hope for good!

Talk about "rats" ? Humans are the only creatures on this earth that kills for sports, trophy, amusment , greed, and power. Deer are beautiful creatures that are living in a world that inhabited by so many humans. Human overpopulation is the problme and I say adopt and stop having babies after babies. Planet earth is choking with humans.

I had East End Fence & Gate put in a Deer fence and it has worked 100% Before that I tried everything. Human hair, Some sort of urine from a web site, I hung soap. Sprayed like a fool.... Its all Bunk. Since the fence I can plant again. Thank you Doug It worked just like you said It would and those 6 foot high rats are finaly out of my life. And I hope for good!

No, lol ...sorry for the double post it was an accident, They were just very professional and delivered what they promised. I was going crazy before I had the fence.I am just happy to be rid of those tick carrying vultures. They killed off 35,000 worth of landscaping in one winter It ridiculous. I want them gone and my jerk of a neighbor feeds them.

I know this is pie in the sky but here goes. It's bad to feed deer but some people feel sorry for them. Maybe those particular deer can be neutered (it is possible but more expensive). The biggest thing to do is conserve habitat. I see woods taken down to build storage units (what a waste!) and other unnecessary buildings (houses that can't be sold in this market). Cutting restrictions are often ignored by homeowners living in wooded areas and the deer have no place to go but the roads where ...morethey occassionally take out humans. When you buy a house in a wooded area you have to learn to live with nature, not kill it. Go live in the city if you don't like nature. The deer eat my stuff too. I plant more - it's expensive!

“Hunters do a job for nothing. I do hope we can get something done for hunters.”

Of course you do the job for "nothing" because your digusting kind enjoy snuffing out a life of an innocent animals who have done you no harm.

If hunting was about "reduction" of deer herd why is it that when I read 'deer managment" website all I read is thing pertaining to "adding" deer. Here some example.

"The number of new deer added to the pre-hunt population is a function of the ...morenumber of fawns born and their survival until until the fall. The number of fawns born is primarily determined by the number of does, but the survival of fawns, however, is mostly dependent upon the physical condition of does, although predation is certainly a factor is some situations. A large number of does that are nutritionally stressed will not raise as many fawns to be added to the fall population as a lesser number of healthy does." Deer Hunting and Management TX

"Thus, late fall up to early winter is very important for deer herd managers to impact and influence fawn production, so make sure the plant communities on your property is properly managed deer habitat. " Deer Hunting and Management TX

"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reason that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large numbers of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. "PA. Game Commission

"Historically in all states, including West Virginia, hunting regulation have been restrictive during the period of deer restoration with mainly short buck-only season to protect does and encourage deer population growth. ." Fundamentals of Deer Management W. VA.

" Fawn crop is often density dependent. Generally, as doe numbers increase, fawn production per doe decreases. Fewer does can and often do raise more fawns to weaning age than more abundant does." QDM

" Thus, does are healthier, reproductivesuccess is higher and more does are able to carry two fawns. Ironically, this can result in a greater deer harvest each year." Quality Deer Management

"With high quality habitat and increased nutrition, the percentage of doe fawns that breed their first fall increases (sometimes up to 25 percent).. Also, a higher percentage of yearling does produce two fawns instead of one." Quality Deer Management

IMPORTANT~

The hunting industry knows about CRE (Compensatory Rebound Effect) that is why killing deer does not work. The sudden drop in deer poppulation will leave more food for the does and will have twins or triplets. Plus doe yearling giving birth at younger age. Then to boost the CRE a wildlife mangement org called "Quality Deer Management" encourages food plots and supplement feeding in states that still allows it. Because of hunting CWD has spread by feeding rendered animals for big rack growth and still continue with their supplement feeding where deer will congregate to continue the spread, It's amazing how hunters compalin when a non-killing group give some apples or carrots but when hunters give them feeds to lure deer to kill and to get big rack and spread CWD it's "ok".

That is why they reject deer birth control even though its been known to work well at Dr. Jay Kirkptrick has quoted on his video. Here is two version one I shortened for the slow learners (sports hunters)

Deer are hungry mr. man in blue with no name. They will eat what they can find and that is why its important to buy ...morea special deer repellent. What I find great is female urine. You pee and leave in bottle for days in warm temp then mix with a little amonia and some crushed garlic (make sure to put a tad bit of oil) that keep the odor linger much longer.

I also believe that everyone who supporting the murder of these beautiful creatures of God should take the Venison and shove it in their freezer. Why does it have it sent to pantries especially knowing that the pesticide been sprayed on lawns where tulips and gardiinias grow. That is all these disgusting human worry about is their precious flowers while these sentient animals are killed because they are hungry. Would you like someone to shoot you because you try to take some bread from a bakery because you were hungry? The abundance of deer are from killing whether by "culling" or hunting which both words should be changed to KILLING. Remember the CRE (Compensatory Rebound Effect ). I say from now on the pantries should stop taking in diseased bodies of deer (NY has CWD deer) and risk of bovine TB and other unknown diseases in deer. USDA do not inspect them and how about gut shot deer (if hunter even find them) they got fecal matters all inside then they :give" to pantries. The most fastest and easiest way to spread diseases from human to human is by grounded up venison like chili that most pantries do. There are 150 billion pounds of edible food wasted in Ameriica today so instead why don't you all "caring" soul start a food salvage program and instead of planting food plots to grow large antlered deer grow a farm with rice, bean, potatoes and other highly nutritious food for the hungry. Bunch of phonies these wildlife serial killers are.

For those who support this barbaric and cruel killing will also have blood on their hands. I bet some of them sit down with their cute little fi fi dog and give him love, care and attention while at the same time cheer for killing of deer who is no different then the dog. Both sentient being capable of feeling fear, terror, pain and suffering. Here is what a Veterinarian has said about deer hit with arrow (which most time is the lungs) but its been hit on all parts of the body because these wildlife ...morekilling morons can't shoot if their life depnded on it.

"Consider the physiology of the deer who dies by suffocation, choking on its own blood, or thedeer who dies after an arrow penetrates the diaphragm. The presence of a highlysophisticated nervous system in deer certainly suggests that their nervous systems performthe same functions as human nervous systems. The presence of the same neurochemicalsin deer as in humans similarly shows that they feel pain as we do."Steve Nusbaum MA, DVM,

There are several clips on this video that I put together buy using hunters hunting snuff videos . Hunters love to watch the brutality they can inflict on the innocent for their self gratification and to show others how "important" they are. Only to their won kind they are "imporant".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yywpjaEBz4c

Here is another I put togehter.

Would Jesus have approved of hunting. ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2SDk58RNz8

Jesus always spoke of mercy

"Blessed are the merciful for you shall receive mercy""Be merciful as your father was merciful""I desire mercy not sacriifce"

And in todays world knowing what we know and the choice we have we can chose MERCY. Only those with selfish heart and no soul would choose to kill.

Also if you ever heard of St. Francis of Assisi he said this

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men."

I happen to like my flowers & veggies, if a deer is going to trespass to feed (destroy) on them, I hope it does get shot! These animals are out of control & need to be remedied, one way or the other.

Granted all mammals feel pain, pleases spare us the comparison of deer to humans. As for Jesus, he lived in the desert where there were no deer. Had he been subjected to their indiscriminate grazing & condoned it then your reference may have some validity. He died for our sins right? This ...morewould include killing deer, I don't think he held exception to certain sins.

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men."

-St. Francis of Assisi

The above quote is laughable at best, in this modern world where genocide and civil wars run rampant, with starving children right here in America you are going to fight for an animal that is a pure nuisance and destroyer of property and crops. I don't hunt personally, but I thankful that many do. They have the right to and same on you for trying to use God to infringe upon their rights!

For the man in blue again, seem that wildlife killers love to ue the excuse of "Jesus died for our sins" so that means man can do what ever they wish because Jesus will save their a**. Is that right? So rape, slavery is "ok"? Because in the bible that is what was condone by "God" as well did you know that. ?

Seem killers love to cling onto "Jesus died for our sin" excuse. Jesus expect you to do your part is showing compassion and helping those who are "lesser then".

St. Francis ...moreof Assisi make plenty of sense, you alllow brutality toward a sentient being such as a bull (bullfighting) sports hunting and all other sadism towards the innocent they take their agression on humans as well. We should treach peace , kindness and compassion at early age not agression and glorify killing like in sports hunting channels. Poisoning young childrens mind with violence and make them think its "sportsmanship" to Kill.

2010 now, we can start implementing IC deer birth where its needed. This is not the age of barbarism. Plus humna so intent in killing and carrying dangerous you have no ideea what kind of human lurk the forest. There is no peace for us non-killers. We too want to enjoy peaceful, no violent forest where ther is good karma, not bad karma. I don't want my kids or me to walk into gut piles or even worse a wounded deer. I found 2 last year and it devestated me. The forest never felt the same.

I have a nice flower and veggie garden and I use afence at least 6-7 feet ttall and I have no problem with deer. But this year I will put up a St . Francis statue and put flowers there just for them to eat, they do get hungry you know just like you do. So selfish its always me , me , me, my garden. There are tons of ways to keep deer away from your precious tulips.

Why are the hunters "giving" to the pantries?? I always hear hunter say how "yummy" venison is and how they kill to "stuff their freezer" so there you have tons of dead bodies to "stuff the freezer" so do it. I told you they kill because they enjoy it not for the meat.

Plus with the risk or all the deer diseases you think hunters would want to eat those deer. I don't think so.

I live in the village of East Hampton and now the SOBs want me to cut my fence down to 6 ft and put a wire on top. What an eye sore My fence was very invisible. Why cant you people just leave us alone. I can only assume this this madness as been adopted so the deer can ravage my back yard. Are you happy now Mr Z ? Its disgusting how no one can mind there own business. Well vote and I am going to make sure I hold the people who in-acted this law responsible.

"Thus, late fall up to early winter is very important for deer herd managers to impact and influence fawn production, so make sure the plant communities on your property is properly managed deer habitat. " ...moreDeer Hunting and Management TX

"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reason that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large numbers of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. "PA. Game Commission

"Historically in all states, including West Virginia, hunting regulation have been restrictive during the period of deer restoration with mainly short buck-only season to protect does and encourage deer population growth. ""Thus, late fall up to early winter is very important for deer herd managers to impact and influence fawn production, so make sure the plant communities on your property is properly managed deer habitat. " Deer Hunting and Management TX

"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reason that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large numbers of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. "PA. Game Commission

"Historically in all states, including West Virginia, hunting regulation have been restrictive during the period of deer restoration with mainly short buck-only season to protect does and encourage deer population growth. "Thus, late fall up to early winter is very important for deer herd managers to impact and influence fawn production, so make sure the plant communities on your property is properly managed deer habitat. " Deer Hunting and Management TX

"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reason that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large numbers of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. "PA. Game Commission

"Historically in all states, including West Virginia, hunting regulation have been restrictive during the period of deer restoration with mainly short buck-only season to protect does and encourage deer population growth. "Thus, late fall up to early winter is very important for deer herd managers to impact and influence fawn production, so make sure the plant communities on your property is properly managed deer habitat. " Deer Hunting and Management TX

"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reason that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large numbers of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. "PA. Game Commission

"Historically in all states, including West Virginia, hunting regulation have been restrictive during the period of deer restoration with mainly short buck-only season to protect does and encourage deer population growth. "Fundamentals of Deer Management W. VA.

" Fawn crop is often density dependent. Generally, as doe numbers increase, fawn production per doe decreases. Fewer does can and often do raise more fawns to weaning age than more abundant does." QDM

" Thus, does are healthier, reproductivesuccess is higher and more does are able to carry two fawns. Ironically, this can result in a greater deer harvest each year." Quality Deer Management

"With high quality habitat and increased nutrition, the percentage of doe fawns that breed their first fall increases (sometimes up to 25 percent).. Also, a higher percentage of yearling does produce two fawns instead of one." Quality Deer Management

You can tell they know about CRE just by their reading. What is CRE you ak?

They always talk about 'control population" funny though that in NJ (Morris County area) they added 5 more parks that makes I think 15 park to kill deer plus they added Sundays and Deer Vehicle Accidents has gone up 54% in the past 5 years you'd think wow, deer vehicle accidents has gone donw a bit but NO, its gone up. DVA peaks during hunting season that is a fact plus with the abundance of deer that hunting industry deliberately produce for recreational killing and blood money for thmesleves. ...more They know people will die in DVA's and I believe that deer killing industry shuld be charged with MURDER 1. When my child drive during hunting season I told him please be careful because it is huntiing season and he knows all about how to avoid DVA and deer are not to blame, man is. Deer are only trying to surive in a lnad that was once theirs.

google "food plot, supplment feeding, deer feeders" and you wonder why we have "too many deer". The bowhunters or in reality bowkillers, act like they are the "saviors" but they are only killing animals the industry created and they enjoy killing the animasl and causing them pain and suffering if they did not they would not be using a weapon as barbaric and innaccurate as a bow and arrow. Most deer end up left wounded and crippled which can take hours, even days to die. Its horrible ,

There will be a video put together about East Hamptos NY, Sag harbor, and North haven, that loves to kill innocent sentient being and the people who support the killing but how dumb they are because the more youu kill the more deer you will end up having(just a vicious cyclce). Plus deer tick can plant themselves on white footed mouse, birds anything. Deer actually clean each other off of ticks I have watched them many times doing it.

Did I forget to mention the killing of plants!? Because we do that too Caroline, ahh, but we don't know if they feel pain and thankfully we don't have the means to find out nor the ability to relate to what a plant's life means to the plant. And thank God for that because if we were able to find that they feel pain as well, what would that leave... rocks & dirt! But then we might find that they..........................................................................................I'm going ...moreto bed

"Mr. O’Riordan added that hunters had given more than 2,000 pounds of venison to the East Hampton food bank during hunting season this year."

Awww isn't that so "kind". After you kill the animals for fun, sports trophy or what ever your kicks are you "give" to the pantries. Easy to "give" what you don't want isn't it and these deer carcass is non-usda inspected. How about bovine TB, Parasites and worse is Prions from CWD. Are they checking those? In Pantries they ground up the meat ...morefor Venison Chili and other ground up meat dishes to feed the masses so that means all it takes is one sick deer to spread amongst other people eating this venison stew or chili.

There 150 billion pounds of edible food wasted in a America ever year. Why don't all you 'caring" hunters start a salvage program or how about instead of growing those food plots for large rack deer and more fawn birth use that time and energy to grow beans, soy, rice, corn, and all kinds of good stuff for humans to eat. Today you can buy fences to put around the garden (yes fences exist) and then this way you can provide nutritional food for the hungry. Rice, beans, corn, pasta full of protein, calcium and all healthy. Not some dead animals where one don't know how they were handled, what diseases they have etc.

Plus we have vegetarian feed the hungry like Food Not Bombs yet the law gets mad when they try to feed vegetarian food to the poor. Why is it that? Why do they arrest those who try to care for other living being in a compassionate way are arrested?

This is Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs is often the first to provide food and supplies to the survivors of disasters. During the first three days after the 1989 Earthquake, Food Not Bombs was the only organization in San Francisco providing hot meals to the survivors. Food Not Bombs was also the first to provide hot meals to the rescue workers responding to September 11th World Trade Center attacks. Food Not Bombs volunteers were among the first to provide food and help to the survivors of the Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Our volunteers organized a national collection program and delivered bus and truckloads of food and supplies to the gulf region. We were one of the only organizations sharing daily meals in New Orleans after Katrina. Food Not Bombs is now preparing for the economic crash organizing Food Not Lawns community gardens, housing the homeless with Homes Not Jails, organizing additional meals each week and starting new Food Not Bombs chapters.

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/story.html

Plus we have Food For LIfe Global

http://www.ffl.org/ffl_about.php

Feeding the poor with compassion and non-kill. If you guys could not kill your animals for sports you could care less for the hungry, you could care less about "conservation" and "wildlife management". All those are just lame excuses for you to kill and that "hunters for hungry" a pathetic program which benefits the hunters and the industry this way they can sell more deer killing tags knowing they dont' want to eat those deer. Plus the trophy which are the majority that buys deer tags do not want the tough male meat, the older the male the bigger the rack so there goes the pantries. Pantries by law has to take the venison meat if its offered. Plus the people are the pantries are not in the best of health so their immune system is low.

“I’m a vegetarian for moral and health reasons, but I am also a bow hunter,” said Deborah Klugers. “I don’t think it’s humane to let deer starve to death. In New York State we’ve done a great job of taking away predators.”

You are a "vegetarian" not a VEGAN. A Vegan would NEVER support killing of any animals and especially with the use of bow and arrow which is barbaric and the death is horrific as it is. It's funny how I always here the "I am a vegetarian but I support killing". ...more VEGAN means the animals have as much right to live as we do . Vegans is a way of living so no animals would have to die. But this is not about Veganism this is about the lies of the wildlife killing industry not only to animal suffer but human suffer too from DVA's. I drive all over the Hampons the sign for deer crossing is pathetic. Why don't you put a larger sign saying DEER COUNTRY, Please drive safely and with caution. Educate people about DVA's and also let them know that DVA peaks during hunting season because of rut and hunting. Rut deer produced in abundance by the hunting industry. NY has their food plots. If they were so "concerned" about safety and their tulips ban food plots, encourage fences, put new signs. One time you spend all that money putting a sign of a policemen with a rador pointed at cars that looked more like a shot gun pointed at drivers. Talk about wasted money and a unwelcoming sign. How about a pretty sign of "Welcome to deer country" or something pretty. Stop killing deer, use IC deer birth control instead and other non-lethal means.

"Starve to death" another lame excuses. I have yet to see a hunter killing a emaciated deer. Not one yet and I don't see thin skinny deer where I live. Plus DEC prohibits feeding of deer and you talk about starvation?? LOL

The town of the rich and cruel if they see even baby deer eating near their yard (not in their yard either) they are allowed to get a nuisance deer license and kill them. One has to be a sadist human to want to kill babies because they want to have food to eat and they are not even in the yard (the neighbor got fences). Some of the old farts just hate animals. And don't give me that "we eat the deer" when their bodies are filled with pesticide sprayed on lawns. Plus look at the roads barely any ...moresign for deer crossing I will video tape it and even if the sign exist they are so small and people are so used to the same old sign design that has been there for ever that they ignore it.